The following appeared in the November issue of Business Diary Botswana:

Despite the IMF’s recent projection that Botswana’s economy will contract 10.3% this year, the lender expects a 4.1% uptick next year such that emergency funding would not be required. Back in June the country tapped a $1.5bn “budget support loan” from the African Development Bank–the largest such facility ever granted by the Bank–in order to finance part of a budget deficit then estimated at around 13.5% of GDP, and since revised to 14%. The IMF cited a renewal of demand for diamonds as a central facet of its optimistic forecast. Furthermore, it predicted, GDP growth across sub-Saharan Africa will rise to approximately 4% next year and 5% in 2011, up from 1.1% in 2009. “We think it should be possible for sub-Saharan Africa to recover quicker this time around and have a ‘V-shaped recovery,’”

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PowerSafe Technology Corporation (PSFT.PK) subsidiary Amplification Technologies Inc. (www.amplificationtechnologies.com) (ATI), is offering higher performance thermoelectrically cooled discrete amplification single photon counting solid state photodetectors. These photodetectors are mounted on a two stage thermoelectric cooler inside a hermetically sealed TO8 package and can be operated down to a temperature of -30oC.

HP (NYSE:HPQ) today expanded its HP Total Care portfolio to help small and midsize businesses (SMBs) build a strong technology foundation that increases their productivity and collaboration, reduces environmental impact and provides greater flexibility as they refresh technology in

World leader in the telecom information and logistics sector, Global Capacity, Inc. (GC) announced this morning the launch of a new, global tariff pricing system, GCPrice.

GCPrice will give direct access to GC’s massive database of prices and logistical information, allowing customers to scope and range telecom tariffs for Leased Line and Ethernet services in a real-time, high fidelity data environment. This database represents 75 carriers in 67 different countries, inputting over 5,000 discrete tariffs. With geographic and telecom location data points in excess of 10 million, this database represents the most comprehensive quotation development and point-of-sale information aggregating resource available online, capable of generating detailed reports for GC’s customers.

GC has a great deal of experience crafting integrated supply chain management systems and managing complex distributed data architectures, and offers its customers a one-stop-shop approach to telecom information and logistics. This Chicago, IL- based company has operating centers worldwide to

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Donald W. Upson Joins Infinite Group’s Board of Directors

PITTSFORD, N.Y.–(CRWENEWSWIRE)–Infinite Group, Inc. (OTCBB:IMCI) today announced that Donald W. Upson has joined the company’s Board of Directors. Currently the principal partner at ICG Government, a management consulting firm, Mr. Upson has more than 32 years of experience in the planning and implementation of technology programs across a wide variety of government agencies and departments.

Upson will provide strategic guidance to Infinite Group, Inc. (IGI) management as the company continues to penetrate various markets in local,

Regular readers need to accept my sincerest apologies…updates for the next week will be rather itinerant due to a taxing MBA orientation schedule.

In the meantime, I’d like to mention that Silk Invest CIO Daniel Broby, a friend of the blog whom I consider to be an (the?) authority on frontier market investing, will be presenting a paper entitled “The case for frontier market fixed income” that he co-authored along with Silk’s Director of Fixed Income, John Bates, at the “Challenges of Globalising Financial Systems” conference to be held at the Hashemite University in Jordan on October 21-22, 2009.

The paper, which Daniel allowed me a sneak preview of, and surrounding which Mr. Bates was kind enough to answer some of my questions, posits that frontier fixed income “should be included in strategic asset allocation using a technique known as reverse asset allocation,” in order to benchmark the

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Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE: HAS) has announced plans to unleash the legendary dinosaurs from Universal Pictures’ Jurassic Park, one of the most powerful franchises in motion picture history. This fall, under a licensing agreement with Universal Partnerships & Licensing, Hasbro plans to launch a new action figure line based on the film’s prehistoric predators exclusively at Toys”R”Us stores across the country.

The CtW Investment Group called on the Whole Foods Market (NYSE:WFMI) board to remove CEO John Mackey as Chairman and to begin the process of naming a new CEO in a letter to Whole Foods’ lead independent director, Dr. John Elstrott, yesterday afternoon. Citing

Today, Websense, Inc. announced that Frost & Sullivan, a leading research and consulting firm, has recognized the company with two prestigious awards for product innovation and marketing leadership. Additionally, the analyst firm reports that Websense has grown continually year after year, and that it held more than 26 percent of the $2.7 billion global content filtering market in 2008.

Frost & Sullivan recognized Websense for developing security products that address the unique security challenges posed by today’s feature-rich Web sites, such as Web 2.0 sites and applications. Websense received the North American Product Innovation of the Year Award for Web Content Management for its innovative Web security products, in particular the Websense® Web Security Gateway.

Yin Fern Ko, research analyst at Frost & Sullivan, commented, “One of the important features of Websense Web Security Gateway is its ability to identify and prevent dynamic threats associated with Web 2.0 sites and applications by

So argues Henricus J. Stander III, CIO of Henshaw Capital Partners, a London and Johannesburg-based alternative asset management company that launched the first-ever Pan-Africa private equity fund of funds early last year, in a fascinating piece penned for Africa investor in July.

To help escape the “second wave of effects” stemming from the credit crisis–”reduced export demand for natural resources, lower remittances, lower tax revenues, lower capital inflows, lower concessional lending, lower tourist arrivals all leading to “twin deficits” at the national levels; depressed capital markets and devalued currencies”–not only must domestic bond markets gain traction, but more importantly for the entrepreneurial engine that ultimately ignites and sustains economic recovery and growth, “the vast pools of capital that sit underutilized in African’s pension and insurance balance sheets” must be tapped, he states:

“In Nigeria, the pension industry has grown to more than US $7 billion in just a few

It was an extremely interesting Journal of Indexes board meeting, but two things stand out.

For those of you who missed it, we’ve posted an array of comments and photos from Wednesday’s Journal of Indexes board meeting. Although the proceedings may have been dominated by John Bogle’s frontal attack on ETFs, a couple of other issues really stood out for me from the day.

First let’s quickly discuss the Bogle data. Jim Ross from State Street Global Advisors I think provided the most eloquent rebuttal to the data. Ross argued that the turnover numbers and holding periods implicit in Bogle’s data are a distortion, owing to the fact that you have large institutional investors and hedge funds doing myriad things with ETFs. These investors may appear to be long the funds, but may have their positions wholly hedged; they may also be short the fund (which requires the creation of